Quote of the day

“Why don’t they take every dead person’s name out of the history books? George Washington hasn’t done anything lately.”

Said by Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff after the State Board of Education’s preliminary vote to remove mention of former San Antonio mayor and HUD secretary Henry Cisneros from fourth-grade textbooks. Nelson was referring to Fort Worth Republican Pat Hardy’s reasoning for voting to remove Cisneros. Hardy said Cisneros “has not really done anything” in the last 10 years.